Install Adobe Air and use Tweetdeck in Ubuntu Linux

By richardbaxterseo | Published January 22, 2009

I’m really liking Tweetdeck in Ubuntu! It relies on Adobe Air so here’s a quick “how to install” with Adobe Air and Ubuntu Linux.

1) Install Adobe Air in Ubuntu Linux

Go to the Adobe Air download page, and download the latest .bin file. (AdobeAIRInstaller.bin). Save the downloaded file in your Home folder. Next, run this command from Terminal:

chmod +x AdobeAIRInstaller.bin

Now run this command:

sudo ./AdobeAIRInstaller.bin

Follow the instructions and quite quickly you’ll end up seeing this screen:

Install Adobe Air in Ubuntu

2) Install Tweetdeck:

Go to the Tweetdeck site, and scroll down to the “Download TweetDeck beta for Linux (manual installation)” section.

Click the “TweetDeck AIR file” link and open with Adobe Air:

tweetdeck install Ubuntu

After clicking install, you’ll see:

tweetdeck installation Ubuntu Linux

And finally, Tweetdeck arrives!

tweetdeck on Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex

Props to Tom for showing me Tweetdeck today :-) You can follow him on Twitter here and me on Twitter here!

23 Responses to “Install Adobe Air and use Tweetdeck in Ubuntu Linux”

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  1. frontofmonitor
    Posted January 23, 2009 at 9:55 am | Permalink

    I created a video tutorial to install TweetDeck :)

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  2. Fred
    Posted February 16, 2009 at 12:14 am | Permalink

    What theme are you using?

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  3. coxy
    Posted April 11, 2009 at 11:44 am | Permalink

    Thanks for this – it was useful. You are linking to an old version of the installer now, but that’s not a problem as the app prompts for an update. However, you’ll be screwed when they remove or move that direct link from their server.

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  4. Brian
    Posted May 12, 2009 at 3:35 am | Permalink

    I tried doing this on a fresh install of Kubuntu. For some reason I get an error message when trying to install Adobe Air that says I need gnome-keyring or Kwallet. Anyone have any ideas on what I need to do? I’m pretty fresh to this whole Linux thing.

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  5. Brian
    Posted May 12, 2009 at 3:38 am | Permalink

    Here is the actual message verbatim.

    Adobe AIR could not be installed. Either gnome-keyring or Kwallet must be installed prior to installing Adobe AIR.

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  6. George
    Posted June 19, 2009 at 3:27 pm | Permalink

    Thank you. Tweetdeck are absolutely hopeless in every regard at providing usable information for their users.

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  7. George
    Posted June 19, 2009 at 4:17 pm | Permalink

    Not working for me. Says cmod is: command not found

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  8. richardbaxterseo
    Posted June 19, 2009 at 5:11 pm | Permalink

    @George – try chmod – that’s the command we’re using in this post:

    chmod +x AdobeAIRInstaller.bin

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  9. Mike
    Posted July 10, 2009 at 2:44 am | Permalink

    Adobe Air installs fine, but no manual link at all on the TweetDeck site. please help.

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  10. Mike
    Posted July 10, 2009 at 3:03 am | Permalink

    ok, got it from: http://www.tweetdeck.com/beta/TweetDeck_0_20.air

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    • Steph
      Posted September 26, 2009 at 5:36 am | Permalink

      Thank you. The TweetDeck site wasn't working.

  11. Rodney
    Posted July 18, 2009 at 5:32 am | Permalink

    I got this “[sudo] password for rodney:”
    how do I make the password?

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  12. dicotyledon
    Posted September 1, 2009 at 5:37 am | Permalink

    Thanks for direct link Mike, TweetDeck site didn't want to give up the goodies for me!

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  13. Jer
    Posted October 20, 2009 at 2:50 pm | Permalink

    they removed that link so you can get tweetdeck on your ubuntu box anymore! that sucks!

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    • Jer
      Posted October 20, 2009 at 3:14 pm | Permalink

      ah found a working link! here! http://tweetdeck.com/go/download/tweetdeck

    • yasemin
      Posted June 26, 2010 at 3:46 pm | Permalink

      thanks! that worked finally!

    • MiaD
      Posted August 30, 2010 at 3:17 pm | Permalink

      Thank you Richard for the installation guide and thank you Jer for the link! Now I’ve successfully installed TweetDeck.

  14. susanita
    Posted December 1, 2009 at 3:50 am | Permalink

    Thanks for the information. Very helpful. :D

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  15. Felipe
    Posted December 2, 2009 at 3:06 am | Permalink

    Hi.. I am having an issue… I am trying to install Adobe AIR but all I get is: “An error occurred while installing Adobe AIR. Installation may not be allowed by your administrator. Please contact your administrator”.

    I have tried just about anything before issuing the command: “sudo ./AdobeAIRInstaller.bin” like closing firefox, making sure the /opt/Adobe Air directory does not exist.

    Actually Adobe Air was working fine.. up until I decided to run “Computer Janitor” thats when Adobe Air started to get messed up…

    Please shed some light over this issue…

    I will really appreciate it.

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    • Michaeljwjr
      Posted January 18, 2010 at 7:48 pm | Permalink

      Felipe the SAME THING happened to me! I ran computer janitor, and it messed everything up.

    • Michaeljwjr
      Posted January 18, 2010 at 7:57 pm | Permalink

      Fixed it! Yay!

      Felipe Run:

      $sudo dpkg –purge adobe-certs

      then

      $chmod +x AdobeAIRInstaller.bin
      $sudo ./AdobeAIRInstaller.bin

  16. yasemin
    Posted June 26, 2010 at 3:52 pm | Permalink

    well its sayin now: “Gtk-Message: Failed to load module “atk-bridge”: /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/modules/libatk-bridge.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64″

    what should i do?

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